POSITION OVERVIEW: Want to be the technical guru of a two-person sales team? Ready to leave the "cube" for the exciting world of Sales/Marketing? This opportunity is an excellent stepping stone from software development to a career involving customer interaction. We are seeking a software engineer to provide pre-sales technical support for our Northeast regional sales office in Marlboro, MA. Day-to-Day activities involve: problem solving, programming, consulting, pre-sales support and marketing. Also involves, traveling to customer sites for presentations and hands-on training. The software engineer will be responsible for all technical issues relating to the sale of our products. The individual will be supporting an experienced Sales Manager, who is responsible for finding and closing sales opportunities. The Marlboro field office (one of eight) services the northeast territory which includes: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, Northern New Jersey, and eastern Canada. DESIRED REQUIREMENTS: * Excellent communication and problem solving skills * Individual must be SELF MANAGED and SELF MOTIVATED * Willing to travel, may involve some overnight travel. (<10%) * B.S. in Computer Science or related discipline * 2 yrs experience in industry as a Software Developer, Support Engineer or Sales Engineer. * Programming experience in C++, C, X11/Motif or MFC/WIN32 * Strong Background in Object Oriented Design * Working Knowledge of the internet * Experience with DataViews products or similar tools. * Must be USA citizen RESPONSIBILITIES: * Provide pre-sales support to evaluators. (programming, teaching, etc) * Demonstrate our products during sales calls, trade-shows and seminars. * Act as a Professional Problem Solver to help close the sale. * Develop demos and proof-of-concepts to promote our products. Other responsibilities include: * Maintaining office Hardware/Software (Sun SPARCstation 5) * Keeping track of industry trends and competition, such as, X11, Motif, Object Oriented Programming/Class Libraries, scripting languages (tcl, python), internet access. SALARY and Benefits: Salary includes: base salary, car allowance, commissions and bonus program Health/Dental/Life/401K FLEX-TIME (you manage your own time!) COMPANY BACKGROUND: DataViews Corporation is the market leader in the workstation-based real-time visualization and graphical user interface (GUI) markets. We are a multi-product/multi-platform company, our products run under UNIX, VMS and WindowNT/Win3.1/Win95. Our products, DataViews, DV-Gispy, DV-Xpresso and X-Designer, enchance process control, network monitoring, C3I, financial trading, simulation, transportation and instrumentation applications. Our new product DV-Centro is a C++ class library and framework for building visual languages. DataViews Corporation is based in Northampton, MA, This offices contains: product development, porting/testing, marketing, customer support, post-sales technical support, training/consulting, and finance. See our Web Site for details: http://www.dvcorp.com SEND COVER LETTER and RESUME TO: kmadison@dvcorp.com or Kathy Madison National TSE Manager 2250 NW Estaview Circle Corvallis, OR 97330 FAX: (503) 753-7502